I like computer animation, especially on its own.
Often in special effects in movies you can pick out the CGI because it's unnatural when they try to fit it into existing footage, or it just plain looks different. It's better to have a film or show of just that so there's nothing real for anything to be compared to - or it doesn't have to have realism at all and can follow its own set of rules, much like how the abstractness of the things in ReBoot are summed up as being the manifestation of computer processes.
Feature-length films are good; I've seen most of the Pixar films (except the latest two), and I enjoyed the Shrek films too (haven't seen "the Third" yet though). I saw TMNT a couple nights ago...awesome. However, there seem to be an overabundance of animal-based family movies - not that they aren't good, but I'd like something a little more exciting. Plus, the typical two-and-a-half hour restraint on films (seemingly less for many family films, though) limits the kinds of stories you can tell. Plus there may be a couple years between sequels. While watching TMNT and seeing how well it all worked, I found myself wondering why they couldn't make a decent CG TV series.
Other than ReBoot, I can't name a good CG TV series. Even Mainframe's own other shows are toy sell-outs. Except maybe Weird-Ohs! but you could see that it was crap. Beast Wars was good, Beast Machines was passable, Shadow Raiders was amusing, and Action Man had cool "AMP IT UP" scenes (for the first season, anyway) but by then it was already more than evident that they were on a downward spiral. Or maybe they just skewed much younger and so I wasn't interested. I had next to no interest in the remainder of Action Man, most of Spider-Man, and I don't think I would've ever deliberately tuned into Casper, Barbie, or Hot Wheels. I think any other CG show on right now (which is still a rarity, unless it's mixed into traditional animation, as often seems to be the case with anime these days) is for the most part not that memorable. Maybe I don't watch enough TV so that's not entirely fair.
But ReBoot was the original CG show, an original creation with merchandising only far down the line and not its primary purpose, and I followed the story all the way through to the cliffhanger end. There are enough fans for a revival, and heck, Mainframe (or I guess Rainmaker now) I'm sure would rather bank on this than selling out to the next toy thing that kids are going to outgrow in a year. Or something.
But if they don't resolve the cliffhanger (though I really hope they do) and instead opt to do a reboot of ReBoot, there better be enough semblance to the original otherwise ReBoot will still be considered dead to me. I don't care so much that it takes place inside a computer and has nerdy references...I want characters that I can care about in situations that are wicked cool. It's the same for any show. So if they work from a clean slate, the fact that it has the name ReBoot is really only to pique my interest.
Three feature films sounds like too much if it's going to theatres (would enough people care?), too little if it's going straight to DVD (a sure sign of meh-ness), so personally, I'd like the series to continue as a weekly TV show.
